Handel: Partenope "Voglio dire al mio tesoro" Dumaux

High resolution and stereo sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_IYZ3jhY9s&fmt=18

If you want to download the full radio broadcast recording of Copenhagen Partenope, here is the link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ET1H8BNT

Enjoy!


G.F. Handel (1685-1759)

Recitativo: Armindo ardisci e prova
Aria: Voglio dire al mio tesoro

from Act I, Sc. 4 of Partenope, HWV 27
Comic opera in three acts

Libretto by: Silvio Stampiglia

Premiere: King's Theatre, London, 24 February 1730

Original Cast in 1730:

Partenope: Anna Maria Strada del Pò, soprano
Rosmira: Antonia Maria Merighi, contralto
Arsace: Antonio Maria Bernacchi, alto castrato
Armindo: Francesca Bertolli, mezzo-soprano
Emilio: Annibale Pio Fabri, tenor
Ormonte: Johann Gottfried Riemschneider, basso


In this video:

Christophe Dumaux, countertenor (as Armindo)
Concerto Copenhagen,
Lars Ulrik Mortensen

Det Kongelige Teater (Gamle Scene), Copenhagen
11 October 2008

Is it Dumaux singing the recitativo? A bit dubious, that one. If it is him, then he rocks big time! :)

Edit: It is Trine Bastrup Møller
Eser

A review of the premiere that was performed on October 4:
http://mostlyopera.blogspot.com/2008/10/copenhagen-andreas-scholl-tuva.html

The cast:

Partenope: Inger Dam-Jensen
Arsace: Andreas Scholl
Armindo: Christophe Dumaux
Rosmira: Tuva Semmingsen
Emilio: Bo Kristian Jensen
Ormonte: Palle Knudsen

Concerto Copenhagen,
Lars Ulrik Mortensen


Handel wrote Partenope in 1730, a time in his life when he was free to choose a wider range of librettos.

"It was Handel's first comic opera, which broke away from the Opera Seria tradition. It was rejected by the Royal Academy of Music, because of its frivolous nature, with relatively few extended arias and more recitative." - Wikipedia.

In the score, the B section is followed with a shortened version of the instrumental introduction, and there's a "Dal Segno" - the Segno being at the beginning of the vocal line. I edited the score accordingly: I removed the conclusion of the B section, placed a Da Capo where Armindo stops singing, removed the Segno of the A section, and displayed again the long introduction.


Recitativo

ARMINDO

Recitativo

Armindo ardisci, e prova
di palesarti amante;
a gli audaci talor fortuna giova.

Aria

Voglio dire al mio tesoro
ch'io sospiro, piango e moro,
e che bramo almen pietà.

E dir voglio ch'il mio core
tutto fede e tutto amore
è trofeo di sua beltà.


Translation:

Recitativo

Be resolute Armindo, and attempt,
undaunted, to confess yourself a lover;
Fortune is oft propitious to the bold.

Aria

Now to my lovely fair I'll fly,
and tell her I despair and die,
and tender pity crave.

I'll say my heart can only move,
by the soft laws of faith and love,
and is her beauty's slave.

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[hillevifan]

can you post some sections with Semmingsen and Dam-jensen i love them!?

[civileso]

I just uploaded the 3rd act terzetto with Dam-Jensen, Sholl and Møller (who was dubbing Semmingsen that night, because Tuva was ill). I'll post some more clips soon.

[delauge]

did you see this opera with Andreas?

[civileso]

I wish! :) I only listened to it on the radio. I also got comments from people who went there that night and learned that Tuva was sick and had to be dubbed. I had noticed that she didn't sound like herself. So she was only acting. It must have been mentioned before the broadcast but I don't know Danish, so... :) Andreas was also sick but he was singing.

[delauge]

what radio was it??? I cant find anything.... :(

[civileso]

It was Danish Radio Dr-P2. The broadcast was announced on Andreas Scholl Society website.

[Paulkazey1]

Thank you for posting this marvelous performance. Dumaux is a prodigious talent!

[FuzzyCerts]

There's practically no video footage yet - they've only just begun filming for the DVD - and Tuva's been indisposed for the past three performances, so it's her understudy that was heard on the radio (Oct. 11th)

[delauge]

Andreas is really star! :)

[ongny]

Me too. This aria is one of Handel's best. Thanks, civileso!